My First Follower

My Mom

Honestly I wasn't sure if anyone would "follow" this or not and didn't really care.  Like I mentioned this may be an effort of journaling albeit probably censured a bit.  But what to my surprise, I log in this evening to find my mom as my first official follower.  Well isn't that perfect!  Who else but your mom should be first?  Sure a best friend or sister seems logical too but isn't your mom "usually" first to see you off on any adventure no matter the age?  Of course there are those who have lost their mother, may be estranged from their mother, or have just grown up with an absence of a mother figure for whatever reason.

Despite all the grief I have generously dished out to my mom over the past 44 years, she is my biggest fan.  She thinks all the things I have done in my life are spectacular or that I have been "brave" to do them, whereas I view the exact same things with a casual nonchalance.  Some of my achievements may be as simple as graduating high school, going off to college, and buying my first house on my own - all things that most people do, but gosh mom's do think these things are spectacular when their own kids are doing them.  Shouldn't we all celebrate all of our achievements through a mother's perspective?  Imagine how proud we would be of ourselves all the time?  Now I am not saying if I pull out my coloring book and box of 96 (which I have lots of both of those) and color a picture and stay in the lines, that I should hoot and holler and tell everyone about it but...what if I "as a grown up" proudly put my picture on the fridge as a mini-celebration? Wouldn't something as simple as that bring a smile to your face as you reached for the refrigerator door to grab the coffee creamer in the morning?  This may be my experiment for tonight, so off I run now, I've got a picture to color!